Virginia Pye

Virginia Pye 's story collection Shelf Life of Happiness won the 2019 IPPY Gold Medal for Short Fiction and her two historical novels set in China, Dreams of the Red Phoenix and River of Dust , also received literary awards. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times , Literary Hub , The Rumpus , and elsewhere. She is Fiction Editor at Pangyrus and has taught writing at NYU, UPenn, and at GrubStreet Writing Center in Boston. ...

Virginia Pye 's story collection Shelf Life of Happiness won the 2019 IPPY Gold Medal for Short Fiction and her two historical novels set in China, Dreams of the Red Phoenix and River of Dust , also received literary awards. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times , Literary Hub , The Rumpus , and elsewhere. She is Fiction Editor at Pangyrus and has taught writing at NYU, UPenn, and at GrubStreet Writing Center in Boston. ... See less